This Round of Influenza A Is Wind-Heat Common Cold; Treat with Acrid-Cool Exterior Releasing

Doctor zhou
Recently influenza A has been prevalent, especially in schools and kindergartens; my son also caught it. Because for the previous three years everyone strictly followed epidemic prevention, influenza had not spread so widely in our country for a long time, leading to reduced population immunity to influenza. So during this influenza A outbreak, people are more easily infected, and the symptoms after infection are more severe.
After this influenza A infection, patients mostly present with typical symptoms of body pain, fever, cough and dry mouth, without marked aversion to cold, and most patients have aversion to heat. Therefore this round of influenza A belongs to wind-heat common cold, which traditional TCM considers a Taiyin warm disease. It can be treated with heat-clearing and detoxifying TCM formulas or patent medicines such as Maxing Shigan Tang, Yinqiao San, Siji Ganmao Keli (Four-Season Cold Granules) and Lianhua Qingwen. Our child was cured with this kind of heat-clearing, detoxifying medicine.
Maxing Shigan Tang: Zhiganghuang (honey-fried Ephedra) 3-6 g, Xingren (Apricot kernel) 6 g, Shengshigao (raw Gypsum) 15-30 g (decoct first for 30 minutes), Zhigancao (honey-fried Licorice) 6 g. Decoct in water; 1-2 doses daily, each dose taken twice.
Indications for Maxing Shigan Tang: fever or no fever, sweating or no sweating, cough, dyspnea, shortness of breath; in severe cases flaring nostrils, needing to breathe through the mouth, mouth open while sleeping, thirst; thin white or yellow tongue coating; floating, slippery, rapid pulse. A floating pulse means the pulse can be felt with light pressure; a rapid pulse means the pulse beats quickly; the same below.
The patent medicine made from Maxing Shigan Tang is Maxing Zhike Tangjiang (Ephedra-Apricot Cough Syrup).
Yinqiao San: Lianqiao (Forsythia) 10 g, Jin yinhua (Honeysuckle) 10 g, Niubangzi (Burdock fruit) 10 g, Jiegeng (Platycodon) 6 g, Bohe (Mentha) 6 g, Zhuye (Lophatherum) 4 g, Shenggancao (raw Licorice) 5 g, Jingjiesui (Schizonepeta spike) 5 g, Dandouchi (light Fermented Soybean) 5 g. Decoct in water; 1-2 doses daily, each dose taken twice.
Indications for Yinqiao San: fever, slight aversion to cold or no aversion to cold, thirst, headache, sore throat, cough, red tongue tip, thin white or thin yellow coating, floating rapid pulse.
Patent medicines made from Yinqiao San include Yinqiao Pian (Forsythia Honeysuckle Tablets), Yinqiao Jiedu Keli, Yinqiao Jiedu Wan and Yinqiao Jiedu Pian.
Sangju Yin: Sangye (Mori leaf) 7.5 g, Juhua (Chrysanthemum) 3 g, Xingren (Apricot kernel) 6 g, Jiegeng (Platycodon) 6 g, Lugen (Phragmites root) 6 g, Lianqiao (Forsythia) 5 g, Bohe (Mentha) 2.5 g, Shenggancao (raw Licorice) 2.5 g. Decoct in water; 1-2 doses daily, each dose taken twice.
Indications for Sangju Yin: mild influenza A, cough, low fever, slight thirst.
Patent medicines made from Sangju Yin include Sangju Ganmao Pian and Sangju Keli. In addition, Sangju Yinqiao San is a patent medicine combining Yinqiao San and Sangju Yin, which may also be used.
Chai Ge Jieji Tang: Chaihu (Bupleurum) 9 g, Gegen (Pueraria) 9 g, Huangqin (Scutellaria) 6 g, Baishao (White Peony) 6 g, Shenggancao (raw Licorice) 3 g, Qianghuo (Notopterygium) 3 g, Baizhi (Angelica dahurica) 3 g, Jiegeng (Platycodon) 3 g, Shengjiang (Fresh Ginger) 3 slices, Dazao (Jujube) 2 pieces, Shengshigao (raw Gypsum) 5-15 g (decoct first for 30 minutes).
Indications for Chai Ge Jieji Tang: exterior evil not resolved but entering the interior and transforming to heat. The patient has marked fever with mild or no aversion to cold, headache and eye pain, pain in the eye sockets, dry nose, no sweating, floating and surging pulse.
There is no corresponding patent medicine for Chai Ge Jieji Tang.
Pediatric patients can be treated with Xiaoer Chiqiao Qingre Keli, Chaihuang Keli, Lingyangjiao Koufuye (Antelope Horn Oral Liquid), Xiaoer Magan Keli and Lianhua Qingwen Keli.
For those with simple incessant cough, 3-5 hooks of Gouteng (Uncaria) and 0.5-1 g of Bohe (Mentha) can be brewed as tea, replaced when the taste fades.

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